For the week:


"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
Marilyn Monroe

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
Marilyn Monroe

"All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."
Marilyn Monroe

"When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the pace." Bob Marley

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison


To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mohandas Gandhi

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
Jim Morrison

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison



I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day.- the notebook

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost


"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." - Albert Einstein

"A right delayed is a right denied." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy

"Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground." - John Lennon

"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language." - Walt Disney

"The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." – Paul Fix

"The road to success is always under construction." –Lily Tomlin

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." -George Burns

Don't ya think that you need somebody? Don't ya think that you need someone?
Everybody needs somebody . You're not the only one." -Guns N’ Roses

"When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out." 
---David Weatherford

"Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." 
---Eddie Rickenbacker

I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.
Elle Macpherson

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Helen Keller, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt by the heart”

Daniel Weatherford, “ We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. WE appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By that same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.”

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
Ron White

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

We have time, there's no big rush.
Jimi Hendrix

A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney

A man is only as faithful as his options.
Chris Rock

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great
-John D. Rockefeller

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
-Michael Phelps

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole stair case.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
-Oprah Winfrey

We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams. –Willy Wonka

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done. – James Dean

I live in a crazy time. -Anne Frank

A jug fills drop by drop. –Buddha

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. –Bob Marley

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.” – Self-Pity by D.H. Lawrence

“Love transcends death. The people we love touch our lives, even after they're gone.” – Jarod (The Pretender 1996)


“…We're independent - and independence - that's a privilege of the strong.” – Lyle (The Pretender 1996)

"So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove."
Richard Paul Evans (The Carousel)

“no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.” – Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Adolf Hitler

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.
Jesse James



This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004


Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."
Taylor Swift

"Life is too short to dwell on the past, but too long not to learn from it."

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.
-Miley Cyrus

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King Jr

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
-Mark Twain

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.
-Ronald Reagan

A great man is always willing to be little.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson